On a recent Saturday evening at Lauderhill Sports Complex, the westernmost baseball field is missing its leather base bags. A large white circle cuts through the orange dirt of the infield, extending into the lush green grass of the outfield. In the middle of the circle, about centerfield, is a…
The long, exhausting election season is beginning to seem to Tailpipe a lot like Napoleon’s march on Moscow. No snow yet, maybe, but a grueling retreat for all the blow-dried candidates of January and plenty of bodies along the road. It’s in the blizzard of second-tier races, though, that the…
Robert Platshorn was a hostage, all right, but you wouldn’t have known it from the lush Caribbean scenery outside his hotel window. You wouldn’t have figured it from his carefree fishing excursions for marlin and sailfish on luxury yachts or from the big fat joints of Colombia’s finest marijuana that…
Jack Thompson looks nothing like 9/11 orchestrator Mohamed Atta. He wears a slick business suit and lives in a million-dollar home in Coral Gables. Yet the 56-year-old lawyer hand-delivered a letter to U.S. District Court Chief Judge Federico A. Moreno last week that sounded a lot like terrorism: “Maybe,” he…
Somebody had commented on here about a big management retreat for Palm Beach Post poo-bahs — and now we have the resulting memo (thanks to my colleague Deirdra Funcheon, who obtained it). The June 16 directive charts out a path for the future of the Post, a future that apparently…
Photojournalist Carlos Miller was acquitted of failure to obey and officer and disorderly conduct, but convicted of resisting arrest without violence. Apparently the judge, Jose L. Fernandez, didn’t take kindly to Miller’s use of the Internets. From Miller’s blog: Although prosecutor Ignacio Vazquez was (thankfully) asking for only three months…
Nothing personal against anyone in particular, just in general. A release from the Tribune Co. website (via Romenesko): CHICAGO, June 16, 2008 — Tribune Interactive President Marc Chase today named Kim Johnson as Senior Vice President of Local Sales. “The promotions department was testing a new online contest program, and…
Carlos Miller, who was arrested in Miami for taking pictures on a public street, had his opening day in trial yesterday. And the prosecutor in the case not only asked the judge to bar him from blogging about the trial, but brought a photo of Miller into evidence, noting that…
What New Times reported last week is now official: The Herald is cutting 17 percent of its workforce, or 250 positions, which is actually 2 percent more than we expected. “These next few weeks will be some of the most difficult and emotional we have faced,” Editor Anders Gyllenhaal wrote…
Just taking a break from MSNBC’s non-stop coverage of Tim Russert’s death. I’m typing fast, with growing fear that I might miss another reference to the Bills, the Pope, or Patrick Moynihan. Did you know that Russert graduated from law school? Now you do, 200 times over, during what has…
A look back at the way the Sun-Sentinel handled this week’s overblown tomato scare is truly Help Team journalism at its best. First you must understand that the tomato story was perfect for newspapers. Think about it — nothing like deadly tomatoes on a dull news day. Tomatoes are everywhere!…
Well, this hasn’t been my week blogging. I had the pictures of the Miami Herald Santeria rooster all day and delayed posting it, thinking that it would hold. Well, a blog called Random Pixels And Loose Talk From Miami Beach beat me to the punch. So it goes. My picture’s…
Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom got the email while he was sitting on the dais during Tuesday commissioner meeting. A coworker of Rodstrom’s at Wachovia told him the boss was in town and everybody had to meet in the conference room at the downtown office. Rodstrom knew what was happening…
The document, titled “Obama and the Jews — Truth Checklist,” contains what Palm Beach County Republican Party Chairman Sid Dinerstein believes is the key that will unlock the doors of the White House for John McCain. Dinerstein says he didn’t write the document and can’t remember who sent it to…
Markus Groh felt uneasy aboard the M/V Shear Water. A buddy had talked him into booking a six-night trip on the charter boat with nine other Austrians to scuba-dive with sharks in the Bahamas. There would be dead fish in the water to attract the big boys — tiger sharks,…
Theresa Gerstner can recall how suspicion crept slowly into her mind. It was peculiar to see boys climbing into Rev. Neil Doherty’s car for a trip to the movies. Then she learned the St. Vincent Catholic Church pastor took boys to his mother’s house in West Palm Beach and even…
Lay Off Capitalism, Dude Nice work (“Man a Mano Against Poverty,” Tailpipe, June 5), but can we stop attacking the ’80s and Reagan? The decade wasn’t about greed, as is commonly portrayed by the far left. It was about capitalism… the very “evil” that has raised more people out of…
Sun-Sentinel Managing Editor Sharon Rosenhause is retiring — and the newspaper isn’t filling the position. This is the memo posted in-house today by Executive Editor Earl Maucker: It is with considerable sadness that I am announcing today that Sharon Rosenhause has decided to retire effective July 31. Since the day…
Two recent comments posted on this blog in the past week are worthy of bringing to the fore, methinks. One recently came from the 19-year-old daughter (apparently) of Olidia Kerr Day, the woman who was gunned down in the parking lot of the Plantation Police Department. It came in response…
The Pulp is out of pocket right now, so posts will be light the next few days. But John DeGroot came through this weekend with a post about a big news story — the death of three people hit by a train carrying 200 passengers — that was reduced to…
So Chief Judge Victor Tobin announced Friday that Chief Criminal Judge Ana Gardiner was being moved (at her own request, of course) out of her position to become a judge in the civil division. This comes a month after my story on Gardiner’s improper relationships with lawyers who appear before…
UPDATE: I was going to put up a new post, but I don’t want to spread out the discussion to three posts when it’s already split up into two. Besides, at times like these, this isn’t about separate bickering newspapers, it’s about the journalism community — and we should all…
